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Quebec Wildfires: Live Fire Map

41
Active fires
829K
Acres
38
Under 50% contained
21
Typical air quality · worst 51 near St-Joseph-de-Sorel - École Martel
Current situation

Quebec

Elevated activity
Large fires (1K+)
28
New fires (48h)
0
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Quebec currently has 41 active wildfires burning a combined 828,750 acres. 28 of them are large incidents of 1,000+ acres. The biggest is the 413 fire at 159,721 acres.
Typical air quality across the province's 41 monitoring stations is good (AQI 21); the worst reading right now is AQI 51 (moderate) near St-Joseph-de-Sorel - École Martel.

Bold outline: Quebec boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring provinces.

Evacuation status in Quebec

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This season vs the last decade

59% of an average year
Burning right now829K acres
10-year average (2016–2023, full year)1.4M acres

Fires currently burning in Quebec cover 829K acres. From 2016 to 2023, an average full year burned 1.4M acres here.

Source: Canadian National Fire Database, large fires (200+ hectares) only.

Active fires in Quebec

Latest fire updates in Quebec

Generated automatically from official feeds the moment they change: size, containment, evacuation zones, aircraft, and incident team updates.

  1. 284 Fire · Mapped size revised down to 86,383 acres (from 203,062)

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026
  2. 271 Fire · Mapped size revised down to 76,941 acres (from 83,330)

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026
  3. 215 Fire · Mapped size revised down to 63,665 acres (from 65,665)

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026
  4. 459 Fire · Mapped size revised down to 52,323 acres (from 56,292)

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026
  5. 473 Fire · Grew 12,019 acres in 68 days to 52,228 acres

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026
  6. 416 Fire · Grew 26,313 acres in 68 days to 49,567 acres

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026
  7. 377 Fire · Grew 16,276 acres in 68 days to 45,438 acres

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026
  8. 332 Fire · Grew 29,927 acres in 68 days to 31,859 acres

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026
  9. 290 Fire · Grew 868 acres in 68 days to 27,635 acres

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026
  10. 335 Fire · Grew 1,366 acres in 68 days to 23,353 acres

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026
  11. 358 Fire · Mapped size revised down to 20,966 acres (from 21,494)

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026
  12. 304 Fire · Grew 991 acres in 68 days to 17,574 acres

    23 days ago · October 18, 2026

Wildfire history in Quebec

Large fires (200+ hectares) since 1990, Canadian National Fire Database.

2023
Worst year · 10.6M acres
36
Large fires / year · average
1,213
Total fires · since 1990
Acres burned by year
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Average acres burned by month · 2009–2023
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June and July account for 83% of the acreage burned in Quebec in an average year, based on large fires (200+ hectares) in Canadian federal records.

Large fires recorded by year
941871990: 33 fires19901991: 37 fires1992: 15 fires1993: 6 fires1994: 19 fires1995: 59 fires19951996: 126 fires1997: 56 fires1998: 45 fires1999: 17 fires2000: 13 fires20002001: 7 fires2002: 84 fires2003: 31 fires2004: 4 fires2005: 103 fires20052006: 33 fires2007: 68 fires2008: 1 fires2009: 26 fires2010: 33 fires20102011: 12 fires2012: 21 fires2013: 51 fires2014: 12 fires2015: 6 fires20152016: 31 fires2017: 15 fires2018: 25 fires2019: 6 fires2020: 9 fires20202021: 13 fires2022: 9 fires2023: 187 fires2023
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Quebec averaged 2.2M acres burned and 45 fires per year. That is 217% up in acreage and 31% up in fire count versus the 1990–2018 baseline. Fire activity here is clearly intensifying.

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